Memcached is a popular memory caching platform, which can boost the speed and the overall performance of your websites substantially in case they use a database or an API. This is accomplished by caching the calls to the database/API and the replies that are delivered, so if a client searches for a specific product on your site, for instance, the database will not have to be accessed to show the results and the entire operation will be completed noticeably quicker. This is valid for all kinds of database-powered applications and not only for online stores, as anytime a given page is accessed, the app sends a request to its database to get the content that should be displayed. With Memcached, not only will your website load significantly faster, but it will also create much less server load. If any data in the database is modified, the cached responses will also be updated, so the users won’t see any out-of-date info.

Memcached in Cloud Hosting

When you host script-powered sites in a cloud hosting account with us, you can add the Memcached object caching system to your shared web hosting plan with only a couple of clicks of the mouse via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The upgrade will be available momentarily and, since the necessary PHP extension is already installed on our innovative cloud platform, you can begin using it straight away. To give you more flexibility, we offer two different upgrades related to the number of instances (in other words – how many websites will use Memcached) and to the amount of system memory that the Memcached caching system will use. The latter comes in increments of 16 megabytes and you can order as much memory as you like. Naturally, the more memory Memcached is permitted to use, the more content it will cache, so in case you have a heavy-traffic site with lots of data, you may require more memory to be able to make full use of the power that Memcached can offer you.